It is difficult to assess when a person loses hope in the country faster, whether when the authorities do nothing or when they decide to do anything. If there was a telephone, we would report that trust is critical - both in people and in institutions.

Nothing happened regarding the emotional "commitment" of the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European Affairs Nikola Dimitrov: "The phrase: we are not competent should be banned in this country". He said this "shocked by the nonchalance" of the institutions, which declared themselves incompetent to help rescue the shepherd from the mountain village of Emirica, whom a doctor and relatives had to carry in their arms to the hospital, where he died. The director of the Crisis Management Center, Stojance Angelov - who said that if he had been informed about the case, he would have asked for a helicopter - announced that in about three months, the only helpline, number 112, would be operational.

Obviously, no one is competent, including Dimitrov, to ban the deadly phrase "we are not competent". There will not be. There is nothing left but to be shocked by the nonchalance with which the authorities do everything to kill the hope of the "ordinary" people that Macedonia is on the (accessible) path to finally become a state. If a state means something organized and civilized, something in which everyone has and feels personal and legal security, something in which (and which) is not ruled by an individual or a group, but a law before which everyone is equal and all are protected from state arbitrariness , then ours certainly is not. While we dream that one day we will have such a real state, we continue this nightmare in which we try to survive, quite hopelessly, to call it a state. But it must be so - we have one name for such works.

Because we are not a state, that is why, President Pendarovski, it is not a "shame" that some of them succeed in all actions to save criminals, drug lords and other outlaws of law, while others fail all those raised against crime. Are they the same authorities? Since we are not a state, it is not a shame for the authorities to carry out a complex action to save the shepherd from being imprisoned, to carry him for a thousand kilometers (probably they apologized for not having enough comfort), and to do nothing to save the shepherd , to transfer him five kilometers to lie, sick, in the hospital in Stip. Since we are not a state, it is not a shame for politics to become a continuation of crime by other means, and for the comrades from the helicopter to convince us that we are all in the same boat.

Depending on how responsible the competent institutions are, it would be correct to have an inscription at the entrance of each of them: "All of you who enter, leave all hope"? Well, let's not exaggerate, we have not fallen into that trap yet. I mean, let's read Dante (as if we have no other business). There are other writers that we also do not read. For example, Borislav Pekic wrote that the only people who are capable of bringing hope are only those who have no hope. Sounds optimistic to us as a hopeless case. But, knowing how capable we are, who knows if we are capable of doing something alone. Others are always to blame for us. What would Sartre say - hell are the others. However, the most comforting is the knowledge of the great world "wanderer" (there is no evidence that he was in Dubai) Tibor Derry: if a person finds himself, he can laugh in hell.

But we are not without theoretical, more precisely telephone chances for salvation. Going on the inaccessible path led by the competent Dimitrov, it can be assumed that we will enter the crisis faster than in the EU. What do we do when the hope that we will one day have a country with European values ​​begins to die? We will call number 112 and ask Angelov for a helicopter. If competent, if not - health.